Speaker: Fahd Batayneh, Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator - Middle East, ICANN Digitally-driven economic growth continues to be one of the few bright spots in a sluggish global economy. Reducing or eliminating numerous factors that inhibit online interactions and exchange could cause this growth to be even faster and could have an even bigger impact.

1. Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy
Fahd A. Batayneh | ArabNet Beirut 2015 | 18 March 2015

2. | 2
ICANN and the
Internet
E-Friction Online The Way Forward
1 2 3
Agenda

3. | 3
 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
 Mandated with the Naming, Numbering, and Protocol Parameter
Aspects of the Internet
 Naming – Domain Names
 Numbering – IP Addresses; both v4 and v6
 Protocol Parameter – Ensures that different protocols can communicate
effectively
 Slogan of a “One World, One Internet”
What is ICANN?

4. | 4
Internet Users, Traffic, & International Capacity
Global Internet Users (Billion)
• 2000  0.50
• 2014  3.00
• 2020  5.00
Monthly Internet Traffic per User
• 2000  10 MB
• 2013  5 GB
• 2018  14 GB
International Bandwidth Capacity
• 2008  14 Tbps
• 2014  137 Tbps
Academic Tool Entertainment and Commerce Critical Ubiquity

5. | 5
 ICANN Commissioned the Boston
Consulting Group (BCG) to conduct
this study
 Digitally-driven economic growth
continues to be one of the few bright
spots in a sluggish global economy
Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy

6. | 6
Main Sources of E-Friction
Infrastructure
Weighted 3/6
Industry
Weighted 1/6
Frictions holding
back companies
from adopting the
Internet
Frictions related to
the availability of
content
Frictions deterring
consumers from
online activity
Frictions reducing
opportunities to
access the Internet

7. | 7
The BCG e-Friction Index (Top 39 Countries)

8. | 8
Significant Positive Economic Impact
0%
8%
6%
70
4%
2%
50 01020304080 60
Turkey
Sweden
South Africa
Saudi Arabia
Russia
Poland
Netherlands
Mexico
Korea, Rep. Japan
Italy
Indonesia
India
Hong Kong
Greece
Germany
France
e-Friction score, 2013
Denmark
Czech Republic
China
Canada
Brazil
Egypt
Australia
Argentina
2013 digital economy1
as % of GDP (est.)
United States
United Kingdom
Belgium
R2=0.60
Equivalent to
2.5 pts of the
overall economy
Bottom quintile
e-Friction
Top
quintile e-Friction
> 3.2 B unconnected people

9. | 9
The Internet and SMEs
+7%
-3
0
3
6
9
12
15
18
21
24
27
30
33
36
39
42
45%
Higher
e-Friction
Lower
e-Friction
Average
Past three years
Cumulative revenue growth
Heavy
web use
+18%
Med / light
web use
+11%

10. | 10
 Many levers exist to reduce e-Friction, what ever the level of GDP currently is
 Population density and large rural populations make infrastructure deployment
more challenging, requiring important policy choices and technological
experimentation
 Basic literacy and ICT skills all help reduce e-Friction
 Local content in local languages drives usage, requiring encouragement of local
ecosystems, including e-government services
 SMEs that use the Internet intensively grow faster, employ more people than
those that don’t, and trade more internationally
 Encourage multistakeholder policy making
The Way Forward

11. | 11
http://goo.gl/lmBDtr
Where to Find the Report?

12. | 12
Fahd Batayneh
Email: fahd.batayneh@icann.org
Website: http://icann.org/
Thank You and Questions
gplus.to/icann
weibo.com/ICANNorg
flickr.com/photos/icann
slideshare.net/icannpresentations
twitter.com/icann
Twitter.com/icann_ar
facebook.com/icannorg
linkedin.com/company/icann
youtube.com/user/icannnews
Engage with ICANN